Treasury Research & Insights

PwC’s Corporate Treasury Solutions practice is dedicated to enhancing your treasury so that it creates the value you want. Our Treasury Research & Insights library reflects this, providing a one-stop source for our papers, articles and surveys that bring to light the issues that are top of mind for you.

Unlocking Potential is PwC’s fifth annual benchmark report and outlines the latest findings of our analysis of more than 200 companies that have participated in benchmarking projects. The report draws upon detailed data from these organisations, together with observations of the leading practices that drive top performing finance functions.

For strategic transactions, managing the risks typically associated with Corporate Treasury can be paramount to a deal’s success. This article explores how to navigate those risks and seize the inherent opportunities that effectively position Corporate Treasury and strategically transform the new organisation.

In today's fast paced and constantly changing market, continuous innovation is critical to any company's success. CFO's can play a critical role, but for them, supporting innovation presents a particular challenge—and opportunity. Hear what PwC and Wharton faculty have to say about the importance of the CFO leading the charge for innovation.

One in three companies is still at risk of not being ready to migrate to SEPA in time for the 1 February 2014 deadline, according to our latest survey on SEPA readiness. We offer guidance on SEPA migration and how companies might still achieve the deadline with a 'plan B'.

The slow growth and economic challenges of the ‘new normal’ are being felt across the globe. Since the financial crisis, growth rates across the major economies of the western world have been disappointing. This is not just a product of the ‘euro crisis’. The US economy has struggled to grow at more than 2% a year, which is low by comparison with previous economic recoveries.

In this paper we explore the potential future direction of finance - not through predictions or setting out what we believe the vision to be but by revisiting some of the key principles upon which finance and accounting were founded and looking at how these principles may shape the future of finance.